WiCCD has launched our fourth year in existence with the first of a number of changes in our leadership.
The incomparable Maya Shukairy is the next President of WiCCD, having earned the position through her dedication and commitment to the organization from the start and investing huge amounts of time and effort to build our YouTube channel into an award-winning platform, essentially single-handedly.
Megan Stephens takes the reins from Maija Martin spearheading our litigation and advocacy.
A number of further announcements are coming in the next few days and we are excited about all the new members of the Executive to join us. We also have a brand new Admin team and a host of fun, free and interesting programming coming up!
All this and more revealed in our 3rd Anniversary Celebration Video featuring most of the current Exec
• Called to the Bar (1992)
• U of T Law grad (1990)
• Sole practitioner (33 years)
• Partner in small law firm (Hiltz Szigeti) 2002 - 2013
• Mom to two astonishing kids, Scarlett (20+) and Sebastian (20-)
• (Founding) Chair of Mental Health Legal Committee for ten years (1997 to 2007)
* Founding President of Law and Mental Disorder Association - LAMDA since 2017
* Founder and Secretary to Women in Canadian Criminal Defence - WiCCD - since 2022
• Counsel to clients with serious mental health issues before administrative tribunals and on appeals
• Former Chair, current member of LAO’s mental health law advisory committee
• Educator, lecturer, widely published author (including 5 text books on consent and capacity law, Canadian civil mental health law, the criminal law of mental disorder, a law school casebook and a massive Anthology on all things mental health and the law)
• Thirty+ years’ experience as counsel to almost exclusively legally aided clients
• Frequently appointed amicus curiae
• Fearless advocate
• Not entirely humourless
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